Mother Steals Daughter’s Identity to Relive Her Youth
On September 2, 2008, a timid blonde transfer student walked into Ashwaubenon High School in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The petite sophomore wore a pink hoodie and carried a new school bag decorated with hearts. 16 days later, she was standing in court wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and charged with identity theft.
Wendy Brown would post pictures of herself and everyone would comment on how young she looked - that she could pass for a teenager. And that’s when it hit her. She cut her hair, went to the mall to buy new clothes, and shifted her voice.
Wendy now went by Jamie -her daughter’s name and claimed that she was a transfer student from a school in Nevada.
When Wendy was really a teenager, she envied the cheerleaders. She wanted to be just like them. Now her chance at becoming one of them was closer than ever. In early August, the coach invited all the girls from the squad to her home for a pool party. Wendy showed up in a one-piece and a t-shirt.
She was trying to hide the stretch mark she got during her pregnancies. After the pool party, Wendy got a call from an unknown number. It was the cheerleading coach. She had made the squad.
She went to her first day as a cheerleader but would take multiple days off to recuperate. That’s when the school got…
